XF 2.3 Login check

[rhs]

Hi,

I'd like to check, for an external program, whether the user is currently logged into the XenForo forum and, if so, what their username is.

I've looked at the REST API but can't seem to find what I'm looking for there.

Do you have any tips or even an example for this?

 

[Jeremy P]

Look up an active user from session data | XenForo Documentation

Look up an active user from session data. This can be used to help with seamless SSO with XF, assuming the session or remember cookies are available to your page. At least one of session_id and remember_cookie must be provided. Only available to super user keys.

docs.xenforo.com

 

[rhs]

Thanks, but unfortunately that won't work because the external program runs on a different server.

I've now solved this using OAuth2; the user just has to confirm that the other program has permission to access the data.